Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs

Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs were an American rock and rhythm and blues band, that emerged from the Los Angeles punk/roots music scene of the late 1970s and early-mid 1980s. This scene also produced bands such as The Blasters, X, Los Lobos, The Gun Club, The Knitters, and The Plugz.

Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs had a residency playing "Blue Mondays" every Monday night at the Cathay de Grande nightclub at the corner of Argyle and Selma in Hollywood, California for three years, and was an important part of the Los Angeles rock scene. Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs concerts often featured guest appearances by such artists as Tom Waits, David Lee Roth, Stevie Ray Vaughan, members of X, The Blasters, The Gun Club, The Circle Jerks, The Plugz, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and many more. D.J. Bonebrake, who appeared on Pigus Drunkus Maximus, was a member of X. The band was saluted in the Van Halen song "Top Jimmy", and mentioned in "The Call of the Wreckin' Ball," on The Knitters album, Poor Little Critter on the Road and the X album, Live at the Whisky a Go-Go.